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• ADRIANA BOER, Ridderkerk
• Alphonsus Augustus Heirbaut, BELSELE († 1965)
• Albert Jacob Krijnen, Amsterdam († 1870)
• Aagje Schouten, Ilpendam († 1950)
• Alida Vermij, Gouda († 1940)
• Anna Barbara Fooij, Maastricht († 1921)
• (Stillborn) ten Hoeve (ten Hoeven), Wilsum, Nederland († 1870)
• Anna Catharina Beerents, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands († 1939)
• Aaltje Gerrits Ravensbergen, Haarlemmermeer
• Aagje Schouten, Ilpendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1950)

• Aldert van der Velde (0), Surhuisterveen
• Anna Juliana Berbera Steggerda (31), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Anna Francisca SEGERS (65), Sint-Kwintens-Lennik,1750,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Alida Elizabeth Warner (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia van Nies (25), Hoeven, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Anna Margaretha - Margaretha Wilken (85), Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Saarloos (0), Nieuw Beijerland
• Anne Marie OTT (9), Berentzwiller (68130, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Anna Margaretha Wilken, Altenberge (D.)
• Adriana Dogterom (33), Schoonhoven

• 1861 » George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales († 1940)
• 1865 » Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist († 1942)
• 1867 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician († 1943)
• 1869 » José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1952)
• 1874 » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist († 1940)
• 1874 » Jay Hughes, American baseball player and coach († 1924)
• 1875 » D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1877 » Tom Jones, American baseball player and manager († 1923)
• 1879 » Francis Picabia, French painter and poet († 1953)
• 1880 » Bill O'Neill, Canadian-American baseball player († 1920)

• 1840 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1850 » Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Neeltje
12. Trijntje
13. Grietje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
• March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
• December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.

The temperature on January 22, 1870 was about 2.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.